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Goat Worship: A Halloween Exclusive!

Mrs. Homegrown
Animals, Domesticus, Events, Goats
20 Comments
...If access to that kind of food is important to you, you almost have to be DIY. Did you know that a good milk goat can give a gallon of milk a day? Then there’s the ethics. As many of you know, Erik and I stopped buying eggs at the supermarket because we couldn’t support the egg factories anymore, especially once we learned that “cage free” and “free range” are just marketing gimmicks. We started keeping hens t...

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Poultry Outlaws: Chicken Laws Around the U.S.

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
29 Comments
As the days get longer the chickens have started cranking out more eggs. In honor of our first four egg day, pictured above, we present a sampling of arbitrary and strange municipal codes around the country pertaining to chickens. Recent chicken controversies in Missoula (see our post on that dust-up) and Chicago, prove that urban poultry is still controversial. Albuquerque: Zoning allows the raising of unlimited poultry if penned at least 20 fe...

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Hay Boxes or Fireless Cookers

Mrs. Homegrown
Appropriate Technology, Food, Preparedness, Water and Power
26 Comments
...well-cooked food. With just a few seconds of boiling water. Think of the hours per month that you can turn off the stove and still have warm, cooked food!  … It works fine with other things as well:Eggs: put pan with eggs and boiling water in, take out of hay chest after 10 minutes (or more, or less, depending on your experience.Vegetables: take out of hay chest after 110 to 125% of ordinary cooking time. Experiment! Don’t use a l...

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Picture Sundays: Compulsory Chickens

Mr. Homegrown
Picture Sundays
7 Comments
I found this old ad posted in Facebook. Even the smallest back yard has room for a flock large enough to supply the house with eggs. The cost of maintaining such a flock is small. Table and kitchen waste provide much of the feed for the hens. They require little attention–only a few minutes a day. An Interested child, old enough to take a little responsibility, can care for a few fowls as well as a grown person. Every back yard in the Un...

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Trapping bees out of a kitchen vent

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Bees
3 Comments
...his case a kitchen vent. Foraging bees leave the hive but can’t come back in. Next to the one way exit you place a “nuc” box (a cardboard box that holds five frames) that contains open brood comb, cells with eggs and larvae, from another hive. The workers can’t get back into their old home, adopt the brood comb in the box and use it to create a new queen. The process takes at least four to six weeks since you have to wait...

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Another Chicken Fatality

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
15 Comments
...st. Mrs. Homegrown disinfected the coop as best she could and I swept out the bedding. A heat wave last week may have weakened the flock and helped bring this on. We are now down to two chickens, one of whom does not lay any eggs. Looks like we’ll be either not be eating eggs or we’ll have to buy them at the farmers market for the next few months. Mrs. Homegrown here:  I wanted to add that the remaining hens seem perfectly healthy. ...

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A Raw Deal

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
18 Comments
Photo from Aajonus Vonderplanitz’s website http://unhealthyfamilyfarm.com/ of eggs at Healthy Family Farms in Hohberg Poultry Ranch boxes. Many of you by now may have heard about a raid conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement on a raw milk buying club called Rawsome, and a simultaneous raid on Healthy Family Farms, which was one of Rawsome’s suppliers. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has...

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Appletastic Apple Cake

Mrs. Homegrown
Food, Recipes
11 Comments
...oints for presentation if you have to dig it out of a regular pan, but it will still taste mighty good. The cake batter: 1/2 cup flour1/3 sugar1 tablespoon baking powder1/8 teaspoon sea salt1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract2 large eggs, lightly beaten2 tablespoons vegetable oil1/3 cup whole milk Apples, about 2 pounds worth. Wells says that’s about 4. I found it took 5 Fujis to add up to 2 lbs. Peel and core the apples, cut them in half and slic...

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An Omnivore’s Dilemma

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens
80 Comments
...world. Of course such a wide coalition isn’t always going to agree on everything. This week we heard from some animal rights activists amongst our readers who politely took issue with the fact that we keep chickens for eggs. I’ll keep my rebuttal short, hoping that we can stay focused on our common goals. With the animal rights folks I agree that current agribusiness livestock practices are appalling and I suspect most of our readers...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Grub

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens, Composting
11 Comments
...–it has all been transformed into valuable resource.” To raise Hermetia illucens you put vegetable and fruit trimmings in a container with a small opening for the black soldier fly females to fly in and lay their eggs and a method for the grubs to climb out of the compost. You can also feed them small amounts of fish and meat but they can’t digest cellulesic materials. A company called ESR International markets a black soldier...

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